Hebrews 9:10

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Hebrews 9:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.

9 It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

10 They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.

12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

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Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

Leviticus 11:2

“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:

Leviticus 11:3

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.

Leviticus 11:4

But of those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:5

The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:6

The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:7

And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:8

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:9

Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.

Leviticus 11:10

But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.

Leviticus 11:11

They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

Leviticus 11:12

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:13

Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Leviticus 11:14

the kite, any kind of falcon,

Leviticus 11:15

any kind of raven,

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Leviticus 11:17

the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

Leviticus 11:18

the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,

Leviticus 11:19

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Leviticus 11:20

All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:21

However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

Leviticus 11:22

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

Leviticus 11:23

All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.

Leviticus 11:24

These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Leviticus 11:25

and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:26

Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:27

All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Leviticus 11:28

and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:29

The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

Leviticus 11:30

the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

Leviticus 11:31

These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:32

When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

Leviticus 11:33

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

Leviticus 11:34

Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:35

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:36

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:37

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

Leviticus 11:38

but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:39

If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:40

Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:41

Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 11:42

Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.

Leviticus 11:43

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

Leviticus 11:45

For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

Leviticus 11:46

This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.

Leviticus 11:47

You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”

Deuteronomy 14:3

You must not eat any detestable thing.

Deuteronomy 14:4

These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deuteronomy 14:5

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Deuteronomy 14:6

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

Deuteronomy 14:7

But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

Deuteronomy 14:8

as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

Deuteronomy 14:9

Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

Deuteronomy 14:10

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

Deuteronomy 14:11

You may eat any clean bird,

Deuteronomy 14:12

but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

Deuteronomy 14:13

the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,

Deuteronomy 14:14

any kind of raven,

Deuteronomy 14:15

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Deuteronomy 14:16

the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

Deuteronomy 14:17

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

Deuteronomy 14:18

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

Deuteronomy 14:19

All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

Deuteronomy 14:20

But you may eat any clean bird.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Ezekiel 4:14

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

Acts 10:13

Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

Acts 10:14

“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

Acts 10:15

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

Colossians 2:16

Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

Hebrews 6:2

instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Exodus 29:4

Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

Exodus 30:19

with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet.

Exodus 30:20

Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made by fire to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

Exodus 30:21

Thus they are to wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”

Exodus 40:12

Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

Leviticus 14:8

The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

Leviticus 14:9

On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.

Leviticus 16:4

He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.

Leviticus 16:24

He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.

Leviticus 17:15

And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

Leviticus 17:16

But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

Leviticus 22:6

the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

Numbers 19:7

Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:8

The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:9

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.

Numbers 19:10

The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

Numbers 19:11

Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:12

He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.

Numbers 19:13

Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

Numbers 19:14

This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,

Numbers 19:15

and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.

Numbers 19:16

Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:17

For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.

Numbers 19:18

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.

Numbers 19:19

The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.

Numbers 19:20

But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

Numbers 19:21

This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

Deuteronomy 21:6

Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,

Deuteronomy 23:11

When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

Hebrews 9:1

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

Hebrews 7:16

one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

Galatians 4:3

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

Ephesians 2:15

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

Colossians 2:22

These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

Hebrews 2:5

For it is not to angels that He has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking.

Hebrews 6:5

who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Ephesians 1:10

as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.